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an-aussie-button-masher · 2 years

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy review

If you’re like me and grew up playing video games throughout the early 2010’s, you’ll probably remember when games had no microtransactions, no DLC, and often even no side missions or other bonus content. Just a single, straightforward adventure from start to finish. While extra stuff is still usually fun and some games do get DLC right, I’ll always welcome any game that brings back that old formula. Eidos-Montréal has done just this with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a fun, action-packed story with elements of choose-your-own-adventure and not a single microtransaction in sight. You play as Peter Quill, a.k.a Star Lord, the captain of a motley crew that includes Gamora, Drax, Rocket & Groot. If you’ve watched any Marvel movies lately, this will all sound familiar, but trust me - this particular version of the team is very different to their film counterparts. Even if you’re a stranger to the Marvel universe, this game is definitely an excellent introduction, and I’d recommend it to anyone.

For my first playthrough, I played on the default difficulty setting, expecting to have to lower it over time since I often have trouble with combat on console games. However, the game turned out to be very well-balanced, giving me a challenging experience but not an annoying or frustrating one. Some fights were a little more tricky than others, but I never once felt angry or bored at any point throughout the entire game. The combat is engaging and requires a fair bit of awareness and planning, directing your companions around the battlefield and juggling ability cooldowns. Between fights, the game is full of puzzles that are fun and interesting all through the game, forcing the player to be very aware of their surroundings and the tools available to them. The game also does its best to break up repetition, with certain segments of combat where one or two of the Guardians are absent, making the player change up their strategy and generally ensuring that the game stays challenging without being monotonous. Finally, the most fun part of the game was just the sheer absurdity and over-the-top awesomeness of it all - Eidos-Montréal definitely knows how silly the Guardians can and should be, and embraces it fully. At one point, there’s a quick-time event where Peter Quill catches his beloved mixtape in midair, in space, while fiery explosions rock the screen and a gigantic freaking dragon flies past! Even Gamora comments on how metal the whole sequence was. This game takes itself only as seriously as the Guardians take their job - that is, not very - and it’s brilliant.

One thing that genuinely impressed me, even before I started playing the actual game, was how customisable the difficulty was. Some games allow a fair bit of player control over the difficulty, but it’s usually hidden in some out-of-the-way options menu or even require the use of developer consoles. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, however, simply has it all sitting on the difficulty selection screen, basically the very first thing you see when you start playing. The amount of depth the options had was even more impressive - how much damage you deal, how much damage you take, health regeneration, ability cooldowns, QTE difficulty, just about every aspect of gameplay can be fiddled with at any moment. In my second playthrough, I remembered certain especially difficult combat sections, and temporarily lowered the damage I took just a little bit for those fights, making them easier without trivialising them. I highly encourage more developers to allow this level of player control. Once you get started in the game proper, the combat controls are easy to learn and well-tutorialised, quickly becoming reflex like over the course of the game. Outside of combat, the various puzzles are often decently tricky to figure out without being annoying or tedious, giving the player a constant and consistent level of fun and challenging gameplay for the entire campaign.

This game has excellent environment design, featuring some of the most bizarre and suitably otherworldly settings I’ve ever seen. From a massive space junkyard held together by weird pink goo to the bustling, neon-lit plazas of Knowhere, each area is genuinely stunning to take in and it all looks amazing. The rainy and snowy areas have extremely well-animated weather effects, right down to puddles of rain pooling on the ground and the wind blowing through the air. The character models are also very well done, with each of the main characters looking distinct from their more recognized movie counterparts while still feeling familiar. The more cinematic story cutscenes are incredibly well-animated, with each character’s facial expressions feeling realistic, making me empathise with them just from expression alone. However, in most of the optional, dialogue-based cutscenes, the character animations are rather stiff and twitchy. The lip-syncing could definitely be improved in those cutscenes, and it’s a little unnerving when none of the characters blink in them either.

As to be expected in a Guardians of the Galaxy game, the soundtrack is simply brilliant. There’s an impressive collection of 80’s songs that play throughout the game, and the original orchestral soundtrack brings an epic, cinematic feel to the more serious and dramatic moments of the story. The ambient environment sound effects are very immersive, such as the rain and thunder in one of the earlier levels and the various explosions and laser blasts throughout the entire game. The voice acting is also excellent, particularly in some of the more emotional scenes; Gamora’s voice actress, Kimberly-Sue Murray, does a brilliant job of making Gamora probably the most well-acted and sympathetic character in the game. Unfortunately, due to the sheer amount of dialogue in the game, it’s all too easy to accidentally skip conversations outside of combat, and there’s no option to have the characters resume talking about whatever they were discussing before they were interrupted. During combat, dialogue tends to repeat itself far too often, making some of the more extended fighting areas rather annoying.

While there isn’t any specific incentive to do New Game +, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has plenty of hidden skins and collectables scattered throughout the chapters, all of which can be missed if you haven’t been on the lookout while playing. If you accidentally skip a hidden item, you’ll either have to reload a previous checkpoint or just try again on the next playthrough. In addition, considering the highly customisable difficulty and the various dialogue options throughout the story, there’s a lot that the player could try across multiple playthroughs; checking out different story paths, attempting self-imposed challenge runs, and so on. It’s probably a wise choice to have a walkthrough open for future playthroughs, however - most of the collectables and secrets are extremely (and sometimes frustratingly) well-hidden, and many important events can only be triggered by very specific dialogue options.

In total, the entire story campaign took roughly 17 hours for me to finish. Considering there’s no side missions or other bonus content to pad out the playtime, a 17-hour story campaign is definitely worth the price at the very least. There was never a single moment, even in my second playthrough, that I felt bored or the game felt predictable. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a consistently entertaining and engaging adventure for the entire ride, as well as a welcome throwback to the early, simpler days of adventure games that you could just sit down and enjoy for hours on end without being hassled by meta-shops or some of the other more annoying parts of the modern gaming world. While I do have some tiny little nitpicks, like the occasional janky bit of animation and the easily-interruptible dialogue, I genuinely cannot recommend this game enough. 9/10.

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monster4monster-bracket · 2 months

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I adore Rocket and Groot’s relationship. They’re just two weird outcasted creatures of the Marvel universe who found each-other and had each others backs when the whole rest of the galaxy treated them like freaks. They don’t get along all the time and can have their (old married couple energy) arguments, but at the end of it all you can tell they care about one another, even if Rocket is to emotionally stunted for his own good to admit it out loud most of the time. They also have a ton of sweet moments together, from Rocket going through the trouble of traveling to earth, a planet he hates, just so Groot can be happy and (mild spoiler) reunite with an old friend of his in the 2015 Groot comic series, to them going on a beach vacation together in the Rocket Raccoon comics, to Rocket Having an I ♥️ Trees mug in Marvel’s Rocket & Groot Cartoon, to Groot and Rocket straight up saying “I love you” to eachother in the Guardians: Grounded comic, the Gotg Eidos game, and the Telltale game etc. (which now that I think about it, I think rocket has probably said “I Love You” to Groot in most gotg related media more times combined than he has to any of his canon female love interests… so do with that info waht you will…). I could go on, really. Tbh, I do slightly prefer and love Groot and Rocket’s close platonic friendship as is, but I would be lying if I didn’t believe there’s at least more than one universe in the Marvel multiverse where they’re married.

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sanicmaster · 7 months

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Whenever I hear about how Eidos almost made Rocket human sized for the GOTG game I just picture this guy

#shitpost #marvel's guardians of the galaxy #rocket raccoon #the regular show

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edgepunk · 9 months

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I'm replaying the gotg game by eidos montreal

#t #imma say it #this version of the guardians is better than the mcu one #drax especially!!!!#he's the star of the game #the characters are fun yes but all of them pretty much suffer from ptsd and it's addressed too. a messed up found family.#peter q. is less of a dumbass and he tries his best to connect w the team and be more empathetic #they're just so. much better.#it's a shame this game is overlooked bc of the slop that is the avengers #please give this game a chance

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ohfugecannada · 1 month

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Groot’s many backstories

So earlier I saw this post by @alastorgould where he over some of the many versions of Rocket’s backstories, eventually writing his own take on it that combined elements of all of them. It’s a pretty good summary of Rocket’s past and it’s many incarnations in the comics, cartoons and MCU etc and I highly recommend you check it out along with his rocket and halfworld related art/fics.

Anyway, It inspired to make my own post going over some of the backstories/incarnations of my personal favourite gotg character: Groot. Because A) as mentioned, he’s my fave, and imo one of the more underrated Guardians members out of the core 5, and B) Groot actually has quite a few takes on his backstory already through not only multiple retcons in the 616 comics continuity but also through several multi-media adaptations of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. And I thought it would be fun to share some of them with you all.

Obviously, this isn’t gonna cover every single piece of media Groot has been in/has had his backstory mentioned etc. But I did my research and tried my best to cover a good chunk of the most notable continuities and adaptations.

Also, I haven’t read the entirety of every comic Groot is in ever (I.E. the latest gotg Grootfall/Grootrise story arc) so forgive me if I get a few details wrong. If there are any die hard gotg/Groot comic readers out there, feel free to politely and respectfully correct me on a few things.

The Comics

In the main marvel 616 comics there have been at least 3 different versions of Groot’s backstory and origins. 4 if you count his very first incarnation…

Tales to astonish #13 (+ other King Groot appearances)

King Groot is the giant tree like ruler of Planet-X, and an alien invader who lands on earth to kidnap the humans from a small town in order to take them back to his home planet and experiment on them. Conventional weapons used by the towns military don’t work as this groot is immune to fire and explosives. But thanks to the quick thinking of protagonist human scientist Leslie Evens, king groot is taken down by genetically bred super termites. He seemingly dies in this story but later makes appearances in comics like the Howling Commandos, aiding the team. Most commonly being seen as an inhabitant of Monster Isle. There was a time where it was thought the groot on the guardians of the galaxy was the same groot as king groot (mainly the annihilation: conquest series), but this was later retconned as a different Groot impersonating King Groot. Which brings us to…

Guardians of the Galaxy #14 (2013)/Annihilators #1 and 2 (2012)

Groot was a flora colossus sapling who along with his fellow saplings (also all called groot) were looked after by a group of elder flora colossus called the Arbor Masters. This groot was different from the others as he often brefirended the maintenance mammals; small intelligent mammal like beings who most other flora colossus looked down on as inferior. One day, another group of flora colossai were bulling a squirrel-like maintenance mammal and groot steps in to defend it. After one of the more violent flora colossus nearly kills the mammal, groot snaps and tears the other colossus apart. Presumably killing him. This catches the attention of the Arbor masters, who then have groot banished from the planet via a space ship.

This groot would later go on to impersonate king Groot and join the team that would become the Guardians of the galaxy, in Annihilation Conquest: Starlord #1, where he’d first meet his teammate and future bff Rocket Raccoon. The way he was written in annihilation conquest made it seem like he was the same character as King Groot, but this was later retconned in Annihilators #1 and 2 as well as Guardians of the Galaxy #14.

Groot vol.1 (2015)

My personal favourite comic origin for groot. (Also literally the best version of Groot in any media ever dont @ me)

Groot is born on Planet X, where the flora colossus are towering giants who regularly kidnap beings from other planets to preform experiments on them. Groot is disturbed and appalled by the actions of his people but feels powerless to do anything… until one night where he discovers a little human girl, Hannah, being held prisoner in one of the holding pods and decides to help her escape.

After teleporting Hannah away back to Earth, Groot remains behind and destroys the teleportation pad, presumably cutting the flora colossus off from earth, and he is banished by his elders. Groot then wanders the universe for a while, taking in all its wonders and sights, before being thrown in a kree prison where he meets Rocket for the first time. Rocket can’t understand Groot at first, but over the course of months sharing a cell with him, does. After this the two form a fast friendship and break out of prison, becoming bounty hunters/criminals and eventually joining the Guardians.

Groot vol.2 (2023)

One of the most recent and drastically different origins presented in the comics so far.

In this miniseries, Planet-X is a lush forest covered planet and the flora colossus, unlike the other comic origins, are a benevolent and peaceful race of sentient plants ruled over by a giant matriarch tree called Granopy. She looks after and tells stories to a child groot and his two friends Tweeg and Gleef.

One day their forest gets burnt by a gang of mercenaries known as The Spoilers, led by an evil Flora colossus named Agz, and the three get kidnapped. But are freed by a young Mar-vel. Together the four of them, along with an Alpha Centurion hunter called Yondar, fight against the Spoilers and save Planet X. As of writing this, the Grootfall/grootrise arc, which references this miniseries, has only just wrapped up. So It’s not clear if this story is supposed to be a prequel to the 2015 Groot origin or if it’s a full on retcon of it. (Im gonna assume the latter, given how different Flora Colossai are in this compared to the previous origins. Unless Flora Collossus society/planet X as a whole really went down hill after Groot grew up, somehow going from the peaceful forest utopia we see in vol. 2 to the desolate wasteland ruled by an evil king groot in tales to astonish/groot number 6 but I digress) so it’s up in the air for now if/how they connect to each-other…

Origins in other media

As a Marvel multi-media franchise, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and by extension Groot, have had a number of different adaptations and interpretations across various non-comic book mediums including movies, games, tv shows etc. so let’s take a look at four of the most famous ones.

MCU

Weirdly enough, despite this version of Groot (and his son Groot ii aka baby groot) being the most widely known by general audiences thanks to the popularity of the MCU, MCU Groot is the most mysterious when it comes to his origin story. We never get any implications or mentions of it in the entire gotg franchise (outside of a mention of Planet X in the nova police lineup scene in vol.1). The closest we get is an idea James Gunn had planned for a short film about how Groot and Rocket met and a few very brief mentions about it in interviews. In the tweet about the short film idea, James explains Groot was caged up at an intergalactic zoo housing exotic alien creatures and was treated like an animal. Until a worker at the zoo, a robot/cyborg named Tibus Lark, became attached to Groot and helped him escape, becoming his closest friend. Until they found themselves in a hole/prison where Lark and groot would meet Rocket. Being mortally injured, Tibus would explain his and Groot’s story to Rocket before entrusting Groot with Rocket and dying. Rocket would then use the robotic parts of Lark’s body to build his big gun seen in the first gotg and break out of the pit with Groot. Beginning their criminal partnership and (dysfunctional) friendship.

Gotg Disney XD cartoon season 1

In the Disney XD cartoon, Groot grew up on an idyllic and serene Planet X ruled by his father(?), both coming from a long line of flora colossus spanning billions of years who, along with all life on Planet X, all grew from an object known as the world pod. A source of power that exists within groot. Shortly after a day of battle training with his father, the Kree and their leader Ronan invade the planet to mine it of its resources. Dispute the protest of its natives, the planet is burnt to ashes, leaving groot the lone survivor. He’s then taken by the kree and experimented on, along with other kidnapped Earth animals. This is where he meets a newly anthro-ified Rocket, and the two break out together and eventually join the guardians.

Gotg Telltale Game

Like the MCU version, we unfortunately don’t get a look into his backstory, but what we do know from the alternate story path where Rocket stays with Quill and Groot goes with Mantis when the team break up is he is the last of his kind and empathises with mantis greatly because of it.

Gotg Eidos Game

Through conversations with Groot (with Rocket, and later in the game Mantis, translating for Quill), and a few parts of rocket’s conversations, we learn that Groot’s father was the king of Taluhnia (the original native name of Planet X) as well as the other branch worlds. Groot himself wanted to be a forest caretaker so he could care for the plants of Taluhina. In contrast, his father and the arbor masters were corrupt and favoured the needs of the few over the many, and enslaved the sapient animals on Taluhnia. With some saplings even hurting these mammals for fun. Groot however, preferred thier company over the others of his kind due to how nice and smart they were, comparing them to rocket in his convo with Quill and Mantis.

Unfortunately, however, they along with the rest of Taluhnia, would perish after the Chitari would test an experimental doomsday device on the planet. After the planets destruction, the other branch worlds would mobilise an attack, but they were no match for the Chitari and were destroyed as well. Fortunately, groot was able to regrow himself into a smaller sapling form. Making him, as far as he knows, the only survivor. In his smaller form, he would eventually be sold to the collector, but would later be stolen by rocket who raided the whole place while drunk. It’s kind of a mix of the maintenance mammal stuff from the gotg issue 14 story and the general flora Collossus are corrupt stuff from that and groot issue 6, with the alien race wipe out the flora colossus part from the cartoon (though swapping out the Kree for the Chitari this time).

…And that’s it for the most famous Groot origins! Again, this doesn’t include every incarnation of Groot ever, but I think I covered my bases with the most notable continuities. Maybe I’ll have a go at writing my own take on the origin at some point, but for now, I just hope you all enjoyed learning about Groot’s different pasts as much as I did researching them…

Also let me know if there are other, more obscure versions of Groot and his backstory I missed here. I’m always down to learning more Groot lore.

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phantastragoria · 1 year

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The Guardians of the Galaxy are throwing a little party (they're drinking hot cocoa don't worry) to welcome in the new year :) I wish the rest of you a very happy new year!

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webshootersandwingdings · 1 year

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Eidos Montréal’s Holiday card!

⛄ HAPPY PAW-LIDAYS! 🐶

Cosmo is such a good boy.

#eidos montreal #cosmo the space dog #best boy #Cosmo’s puppies #peter quill #hero pets #guardians of the galaxy #gotg game #gamerverse #marvel pups #marvel games #Christmas #groot #rocket raccoon #gamora #drax the destroyer #starlord

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dilfdoctordoom · 1 year

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when we said we wanted funny gamora this isn't what we meant 😭 what even was that new gotg issue?! also is that really mantis or just someone else called mantis because I'm so confused... nebula & gamora being sisters is so bad & peter is just there I guess..... what did you think?

Anon I've literally never hated the introductory issue to any comic more. I'm including the current ASM run in that.

It's just SUCH a misunderstanding and weird take on every single character involved.

Mantis is... Mantis was in a strange position in that her role as Celestial Madonna had, technically, been fulfilled and you can do a lot with that! You can do so much with that! It's why I'm holding out judgment on her, specifically, until a few more issues come out - I think that the writers are just having her powers go batshit insane. Not the best thing to do, but christ, it'd be better than this being her new personality.

I don't like how Peter is being written to be honest lol. I also just... don't think that this is the right story to be told after Master of the Sun. Not to point out a massive pothole or anything but. Peter has control over all the elements. Groot is made of wood. C'mon now this has to be a joke.

He's also sooooooooooo it's not that Peter wouldn't sacrifice half of the people he was saving to save the others like so long as people LIVED, I could see him doing it. He'd just develop a massive complex about it (see: thanos (2005)).

Nebula being there at all is so weird. She's a villain! An irredeemable one! It's part of her charm! Acting like she'd ever be able to play nice with any of these characters is deranged.

And her being Gamora's sister... now a good writer. a funny writer. would simply say this is yet another case of Nebula claiming to be related to someone. I would ignore every other issue with this run if they did that, it would've been amazing but I fear they're following the MCU for this.

(I'm gonna get sidetracked for a second but jesus my hatred of 616 Nebula being Gamora's sister and Thanos' daughter has no end. This is active character assassination of all three like hello? Why are we pretending that Thanos has children? He had Gamora for a very explicit reason, he had Thane because Hickman hates me, why is Nebula here? She's not biologically his, so what reason does Thanos have to adopt her? I can't see him pulling another Gamora for literally any villain other than the Magus & he already had Gam for that so.... why. Just why).

Gamora is the worst, in my opinion, because I can't find where they got her characterization from. This isn't 616 Gamora for sure, but it isn't MCU Gamora or Eidos Gamora, it's just some random person going around with her name.

Gamora doesn't use Earth slang... at all. I've never seen her call anyone "dad", she'd never be caught dead saying "take the l" and I just... even her non-cringy dialogue feels off.

We know what Gamora in a breakdown looks like (Annihilation: Ronan, Infinity Wars) & it's just not this. She isn't a character, she's a string of quirky buzzwords & alcholism.

(Which is.... oh, the alcoholism could be so so interesting for her re: her relationships with Pip & Tony except these writers don't know what they're doing & have never read a GOTG comic before so I don't think that's gonna be scratched upon).

I'd had high hopes for this run, I thought that this could be the first time we get some solid "in a functioning relationship" Starmora moments. But their relationship is non-existent, their interactions are so stilted and forced and everything between them feels awkward in a way I'm not sure was intentional.

TLDR; this is how the creative team approached the GOTG

#q & a #gotg2023 #also it's just kinda dumb that peter hasn't killed groot.

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